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Michael Jeffrey Balick (born 1952) is an American ethnobotanist, economic botanist, and pharmacognosist, known as a leading expert on medicinal and toxic plants, biocultural conservation and the plant family Arecaceae (palms). Education and career Michael J. Balick graduated in 1975 with B.Sc. in agriculture and plant sciences from the University of Delaware, after spending the academic year 1972–1972 at Tel Aviv University. At Harvard University he graduated with M.Sc. in 1976 and Ph.D. in 1980, where he also attended Harvard Business School. At the New York Botanical Garden (NYBG) he was from 1980 to 1989 an associate curator and the executive assistant to NYBG's president and is since 1989 NYBG's Philecology Curator of Economic Botany. In 1981 he was the co-founder, with Ghillean Prance, of NYBG's Institute of Economic Botany and since 1990 has been the institute's director. Balick has been an adjunct professor at Columbia University, Fordham University, the City University of New York, New York University, and Yale University. Balick has worked in ethnobotany and ethnomedicine in remote areas of the tropics with people of indigenous cultures, as well as in New York City with people having traditional herbal knowledge from China and the Caribbean. From 1974 to 1975 he lived in Costa Rica and helped build the Wilson Botanical Garden at the Las Cruces Biological Station. From 1975 to 1997 he was a frequent researcher in Amazonia, where he studied palms and their local uses. He has done research and taught university courses in "ethnobotany and ethnomedicine, phytochemistry, floristics and conservation biology." In 1979, he was the first to receive 'The George H.M. Lawrence Memorial Award', in the amount of $2,000, presented by the Hunt Institute for Botanical Documentation, Carnegie Mellon University and presented at the annual banquet of the Botanical Society of America. Balick is the author or co-author of more than 160 scientific articles or book chapters. He is also the author, co-author, editor, or co-editor of thirty books and monographs, varied among scientific and general interest. He has been a co-collector with more than two dozen botanists, including Brian M. Boom, Andrew J. Henderson, and Ghillean Prance. Balick has been doing research with Gregory M. Plunkett on the plants and ethnobotany of Vanuatu's Tafea Province. Among his academic and professional honors, Balick was elected in 1999 a Fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) and in 2004 received the AAAS International Award for Scientific Cooperation. In 2018 he received the David Fairchild Medal for Plant Exploration of the National Tropical Botanical Garden and in 2020 the H. Marc Cathey Award for outstanding scientific research that has enriched horticulture and plant science from the American Horticultural Society. He is a founding member of the Daylight Academy, a scientific academy based in Zurich, Switzerland. For the academic year 2005-2006 he was a Guggenheim Fellow. He was the president of the Society for Economic Botany in 1992 and in 2009 was a recipient of the Society's Distinguished Economic Botanist award. He is married to Emily Lewis Penn, a New York City realtor and poet. Selected publications Articles Balick, Michael J. (1984). "Ethnobotany of Palms in the Neotropics". Advances in Economic Botany. 1: 9–23. JSTOR 43931365. Peters, Charles M.; Balick, Michael J.; Kahn, Francis; Anderson, Anthony B. (1989). "Oligarchic forests of economic plants in Amazonia: utilization and conservation of an important tropical resource". Conservation Biology. 3 (4): 341–349. Bibcode:1989ConBi...3..341P. doi:10.1111/j.1523-1739.1989.tb00240.x. PMID 21129021. Balick, Michael J.; Mendelsohn, Robert (1992). "Assessing the Economic Value of Traditional Medicines from Tropical Rain Forests". Conservation Biology. 6 (1): 128–130. Bibcode:1992ConBi...6..128B. doi:10.1046/j.1523-1739.1992.610128.x. JSTOR 2385858. Cox, Paul Alan; Balick, Michael J. (1994). "The Ethnobotanical Approach to Drug Discovery". Scientific American. 270 (6): 82–87. Bibcode:1994SciAm.270f..82C. doi:10.1038/scientificamerican0694-82. JSTOR 24942736. PMID 8023119. Mendelsohn, Robert; Balick, M. J. (1995). "The value of undiscovered pharmaceuticals in tropical forests". Economic Botany. 49 (2): 223–228. doi:10.1007/BF02862929. S2CID 39978586. Balick, Michael J. (1996). "Transforming Ethnobotany for the New Millennium". Annals of the Missouri Botanical Garden. 83 (1): 58–66. doi:10.2307/2399968. ISSN 0026-6493. JSTOR 2399968. Sheldon, Jennie Wood; Balick, Michael J.; Laird, Sarah A.; Milne, George M. (1997). "Medicinal Plants: Can Utilization and Conservation Coexist?". Advances in Economic Botany. 12: i–104. JSTOR 43931401. Slish, Donald F.; Ueda, Hiroko; Arvigo, Rosita; Balick, Michael J. (1999). "Ethnobotany in the search for vasoactive herbal medicines". Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 66 (2): 159–165. doi:10.1016/S0378-8741(98)00225-6. PMID 10433472. Balick, Michael J.; Kronenberg, Fredi; Ososki, Andreana L.; Reiff, Marian; Fugh-Berman, Adriane; Bonnie, O'Connor; Roble, Maria; Lohr, Patricia; Atha, Daniel (2000). "Medicinal plants used by latino healers for women's health conditions in New York City". Economic Botany. 54 (3): 344–357. doi:10.1007/BF02864786. S2CID 33839980. Sosa, S.; Balick, M.J.; Arvigo, R.; Esposito, R.G.; Pizza, C.; Altinier, G.; Tubaro, Aurelia (2002). "Screening of the topical anti-inflammatory activity of some Central American plants". Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 81 (2): 211–215. doi:10.1016/S0378-8741(02)00080-6. PMID 12065153. Camporese, A.; Balick, M.J.; Arvigo, R.; Esposito, R.G.; Morsellino, N.; Simone, F.De; Tubaro, A. (2003). "Screening of anti-bacterial activity of medicinal plants from Belize (Central America)". Journal of Ethnopharmacology. 87 (1): 103–107. doi:10.1016/S0378-8741(03)00115-6. PMID 12787962. Vandebroek, Ina; Balick, Michael J. (2012). "Globalization and Loss of Plant Knowledge: Challenging the Paradigm". PLOS ONE. 7 (5): e37643. Bibcode:2012PLoSO...737643V. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0037643. PMC 3360753. PMID 22662184. Books Balick, Michael J. (1988). Jessenia and Oenocarpus: Neotropical Oil Palms Worthy of Domestication. Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations. ISBN 9789251026762. Balick, Michael J.; Beck, Hans T. (1990). Useful Palms of the World: A Synoptic Bibliography. Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231066761. Prance, G. T.; Balick, M. J., eds. (1990). New directions in the study of plants and people: research contributions from the Institute of Economic Botany. Advances in Economic Botany 8. The New York Botanical Garden. ISBN 0-89327-347-3. Anderson, Anthony B.; May, Peter H.; Balick, Michael J. (1991). Subsidy from nature : palm forests, peasantry, and development on an Amazon frontier. New York: Columbia University Press. ISBN 9780231072229. Arvigo, Rosita; Balick, Michael J.; Evans, Laura (1993). Rainforest Remedies: One Hu.... Discover the Rosita Arvigo Michael Balick popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Rosita Arvigo Michael Balick books.
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